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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 17, 1946)
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1946 THE BATTALION Page 3 U. V. JOHNSTON Civil War On BATT Sports Staff This column as any reader can see is not in accord with the opin ion expressed in this same posi tion last Friday afternoon. How ever, since this is a very highly contested issue, I have decided to express my personal opinion on the subject just as a few of the other writers have done. This subject is so controverial that the members of the BATTALION sports staff do not agree, so how can you expect the whole student body to agree? This column does not, therefore, express the opinion of the complete BATT staff, but only that of yours truly. These Five Cagers Help Brighten Aggie Future on Hardwoods HOMER ADAMS JIM KIRKLAND RAY KLUTZ PECK YASS BILL McCORMICK Norton and Meyer Tops In SWC Firing the coaches seems to be in the air after this past hectic football season and there are many here at Aggieland who seem to have caught the fever. BUT WHY ? Admittedly Coach Norton had a very poor season but his past re cord shows that he is a very capa ble coach and one of the most suc cessful in this part of the country. Coach Norton’s record shows that he is second only to Dutch Meyer in the win-loss percentages in both conference games and non conference games. Since taking the helm at A&M Norton has won 39 conference games, lost 31, and tied 6 which gives him an overall percentage of .552, ' and Coach Meyer’s record is only slightly bet ter with .599. Meyer Only Other With Top Team Norton has won as many championships as any other coach during the period that he has been at Aggieland, and has had one team named National Champs and the only other SWC coach to ac complish this feat is the amazing Dutchman from Ft. Worth. Looking at these statistics one should see that A.&M. has one of the most capable men in the bus iness at the helm of it’s athletic program, and I for one can see no reason for changing. If we were to change it is a cinch that we could not hope to get one half so good. More than likely we would only be able to get a guy named Joe, as none of the top flight coaches in the country would ac cept the job if we were to break our present coach’s contract. It would be felt that contracts mean nothing here at A&M. If our coach is as bad as every one makes out why does he have a five year contract that lacks three years expiring? Surely, if he isn’t a fairly good coach he would have been dropped before he had served thirteen years. This throws the monkey back to the men who are responsible. The same men who are now screaming for his scalp were the ones who were willing to give him a TEN year contract after he had brought the National title to Aggieland in 1939. This does not look as if there is anything wrong with the coach, BUT instead something is wrong somewhere else. Could it be with the men who are now try ing to fire him? All of this talk leads nowhere as the coach still has three years on his contract. If the men who want to fire him have the thirty- odd thousand dollars it will take to pay off this contract why don’t they come out in the open and say so to the right people instead of talking to the people outside ? c S / f I uqqoqe Fine split leather cow hide pieces packed full : | of Christmas cheer. With zipper or snap. Leon B.Weiss Next to Campus Theater SEND A BEAUTIFUL HOLIDAY WRAPPED Gift Box CUSTOM PACKED CITRUS FRUIT Texas Special PM GRAPEFRUIT ORANGES (Straight or Mixed) Colorful Healthful Fully Matured Natural Sweetness Prices F.O.E. Standard Box — Bushel Marsh Seedless Grapefruit $4.75 $3.60 Texas Red Grapefruit 6.50 4.60 Oranges 6.25 4.10 • Mixed White Grapefruit and Oranges 3.85 Mixed Red Grapefruit and Oranges 4.35 SHULL-EDWARDS P. 0. Box 53 . _Edcouch, Texas CORDELL EDWARDS, ’45 Aggie Basketballers Win 2, Lose 4 In East End Of Long Trail Foilf Schoolboy Crowns on Line Wednesday R™ ill ^13X0 Kace Cliff Ackerman There will be big doings in In tramurals Wednesday night, De cember 18th in the big gym when Puryear meets the Corps Cham pionship Basketball team at 7:15 to decide the College Cage Cham pionship team. Following this at 8 o’clock “C” Field will meet Dorm No. 15 in the final match for the College Championship Volleyball team. Bad weather slowed flag foot ball down this past week, but the other sports moved right along. VOLLEYBALL Volleyball matches moved to dry land under the stadium last week as the freshman teams continue their battle for top positions. “D” Field came from behind led by Freed, Tate, and Jones to over come a hard fighting “B” Cav. team 2 to 1 in their match. Heads up ball playing carried “C” Field to a fast victory 2 to 0 over “C” Cav. Thomas, Wilson, and Torrence played good ball for “C” Field, while Cary and Taylor were outstanding for the losers. * PING PONG Matches this past week have been played in the little gym and some excellent players have been spotted during this seasons match es. # “C” Field won over “A”' Eng. 3 to 2 in their match. Driving forehand shots and tricky back hand returns gave “C” Field the edge. For the winners Lehman, Horne, and Stevens were out standing and for the losers it was Firebaugh and Walkow. “E” Inf. took an easy victory from “F” Inf. 4 to 1. Driving forehand shots led “E” Inf. to their win. Outstanding for the winners was Swartz and Baca and for the losers it was Stanford. League standing in ping pong up to December 13th. LEAGUE A VETERAN Team Won Lost Pet. Dorm No. 16 ...3 0 1.000 Dorm. No. 15 3 0 1.000 Dorm. No. 14 2 0 1.000 Dorm. No. 3 2 2 .500 Dorm. No. 1 2 1 .666 Mitchell 1 5 .166 Bizzell 0 6 .000 CORPS Team Won Lost Pet. A Inf 5 0 1.000 A QMC 4 1 .800 C Cav 2 3 .400 A Ord 2 5 .285 E Field 1 4 .200 B Inf 1 4 .200 LEAGUE B Team Won Lost Pet. F Field 1 5 0 1.000 A Sig 5 1 .833 A Cav 4 2 .666 A Coast 3 3 .500 G Inf 2 3 .400 A Field 0 5 .000 C Eng 0 5 .000 LEAGUE C Team Won Lost Pet. B Eng 4 0 1.000 C Inf 3 0 1.000 D Cav 3 2 .600 D Inf 2 2 .500 A CWS 2 3 .400 Inf. Band 1 3 .250 B Field 0 4 .000 LEAGUE D Team Won Lost Pet. C Field 2 0 1.000 FA Band 1 01 1.000 F Inf 3 ll .750 E Inf 3 21 .600 A Eng 1 2 ■ .333 D Field 1 3 f .250 B Cav 0 3 f .000 Kennel Club Names Three New Officers The Brazos Valley Kennel Club held its December meeting Mon day night in the library of the An imal Industries building. During the meeting L. E. McCall resigned as president and was suc ceeded by H. C. Stuart. G. B. Win stead resigned as treasurer and was succeeded by Dr. C. T. Edds. D. E. VanBuskirk resigned from the board of directors of the club and was replaced by Mrs. F. B. Clark. Reports were made on the fin ancial outcome of the dog show held in November and plans were made for the spring show. The quarter-finals in the state schoolboy football race were reeled off last Saturday afternoon with Highland Park of Dallas, Odessa, Jefferson of San Antonio and Luf kin emerging victorious, and there by winning the honor of entering the state semi-finals next Saturday. Highland Park took North Side of Ft. Worth 19-7 after scoring two touchdowns in the last half. The game was tied up at the half seven all, but the Scotties finally wore down the North Siders and emerged the winners. Odessa had the easiest day of all Saturday, as they romped over Wichita Falls 21-0. This will put the Odessa eleven agfainst the Scotties next week, but the meet ing place has not been decided as yet. It will be decided early in the week by the flip of a coin, as the Odessa team has stated that it is not interested in a guaran tee. Jefferson in beating Lamar won the chance to take on Lufkin in the semi-finals next week, and this, game will probably be played in Houston, but it is not official as yet. Lufkin handed the Waco eleven a 36-6 drubbing, and Jef ferson came back to overtake La mar and take the game by a 13-6 score. Lamar scored first in this game, but they weren’t up to hold ing it. Odessa is the only team that was picked early in the season to en ter the play-offs, and they are still the favorites to go on to the state championship. FAIRES, WINGREN ARE A&M NATIONAL ASME DELEGATES Virgil M. Faires, head of the management engineering depart ment, and Professor R. M. Win- gren were A&M College’s only rep resentatives at the annual meeting of the American Society of Me chanical Engineers at New York City, December 2-5. Other ASME members on the faculty were un able to make the trip due to press of work. * JET DESIGNER The Story of ALAN HOWARD PURDUE '27 TN CHARGE of a group of G-E gas-tur- -I- bine engineers and technicians, Alan Howard has directed the design and develop ment of two General Electric engines that are today powering some of our fastest planes. One, the Propjet, is the first propeller- drive gas turbine in the world. Alan’s second design, the T-G 180, is a pure jet engine, a departure from earlier jets in that it is designed on “axial-flow” principles which make possible a super-streamlined shape. Gas-turbine engineering is, of course, a highly specialized field. Alan, however, is thankful today not so much for any special knowledge he learned in college, but for the solid understanding of engineering funda mentals which he gained as he worked for his B.S. degree at Purdue. When, in 1941, Alan Howard undertook the design of the Propjet and the axial-flow engines, this sound training in engineering principles, followed by his years of practical experience with G.E., fitted him well for success. Next to schools and the U. S. Government, General Elec tric employs more college engineering graduates than any other organization. After graduating in electrical engineering at Purdue, Alan came on "Test" with G.E. Today he designs engines like the Propjet, which provides both propeller-drive, jet thrust. It may power tomorrow’s giant airliners. GENERAL^ ELECTRIC Cagers Weakened By Injuries, Colds; Also Handicapped By Lack Of Height The Texas Aggie basketball team won the first two games of their Eastern tour by 52-47 over Sienna and 59-44 over Morehead Teachers College but they dropped the last four straight. Coach Karow said that lack of height and the travel weariness had taken a heavy toll on the team. Three of the members of the traveling squad were listed on the sick list before the Kentucky game and their absence may have been one of the reasons for the easy win that the Mountaineers took from the Aggie squad. The three players that were placed on the in active list were Batey with a bad cold, Collingsworth with a sprained ankle and Klutz with a bad cold. Cross Country Meet Won by J.W.StegalI James W. Stegall of C Infantry carried top honors in the annual Intramural Cross Country meet that was held Saturday, December 14 in which some 350 men com peted. Stegall made the mile and seven tenths circuit in 8:16. C. H. Hardie of D Infantry placed second and Bailey of B Inf. brought up third. Others that placed in order of finish were Wil liams of D Inf., Abney of A Cav., Hink of A Q.M.C., E. F. Newman of Dorm 16, Avermann of A Sig., Luker of A Inf., T. Knox of F. A. Band, R. Baker of A Sig., Krause- koph of C Inf., Sauls and Allen of A Inf. and C. C. Luther of C Eng. C Infantry took first honors in the class A event with 125 points. In the class B event A Field was top outfit with 154 points followed closely by B Field with 156 points. G. Inf. carried third and D Tnf. was fourth with 203 and 212 points respectively. S. G. Pate, of G Infantry ran first in this event with the time of 8:22 around the circuit. J. Turcotte of G Inf. placed second and Maxfield of the Field Artil lery Band ran third. CLASS B STANDINGS Place—Name Orig. 1 Pate, S. G G. Inf. 2 Turcotte, J G. Inf. 3 Maxfield *...F. A. Band 4 Kinsey, R. A D. Field The last four games the Aggies have played they have gone down to very bad defeats. Murray han ded them a 49-46 licking, Bradley walked off with a 91-57 win and Kentucky had a very easy time of it in winning by a heavily lopsided score 83-18. The St. Louis game is a good example of the importance of height in basketball in its present form. In this game the height of McCauley, 6 foot 8 inch giant center of St. Louis scored 17 points which was two pointy more than the difference in the score. After that game Coach Karow stated, “Our opponents height and our lack of it has hurt our chances more than any other single item all year.” The stars for the Aggies on the road trip so far have been Batey and Collingsworth. In the More- head Teachers game Batey scored 22 points and Collingsworth ac counted for 14 of the Aggie total of 59. Dan Voiding, center on the Aggie squad throughout the entire game, also made his presence known as he accounted for eight points. The Aggies finally came out with a win in this game after an over time period. The final score was Aggies 59, Moorehead 55. Results of Eastern Tour Aggies 52 Sienna 47 Aggies 59 Moorehead .... 55 Aggies 46 Murray 49 Aggies 63 Bradley 91 Aggies 42 St. Louis .... 57 Aggies 18 Kentucky .... 83 ~5 Hay D. Field 6 Atchisen B Inf. 7 Daly, T. F D. Inf. 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